Vital Capital, a high-performing impact investor focused on addressing critical needs in growth markets, has made a strategic investment in Vastpoint to help scale its efforts in transforming land use, ownership and management in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions.
A consortium of investors, including RDF Ghana, Sahel Capital, and ABSA Bank, have investen over $1m in Mariseth Farms, a lwomen-owned agribusiness in Ghana.
With over $4 trillion in investable domestic capital—from commercial banking assets, long-term institutional funds, and central bank reserves—Africa holds the financial capacity to transform its economic future. Yet, according to the 2025 State of Africa’s Infrastructure (SAI) Report released by Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), most of this capital remains locked in low-risk, short-term investments, failing to power the continent’s urgent infrastructure and industrial needs.
International Finance Corporation has committed up to the lower of $25m or 20% of total Limited Partner (LP) commitment in Enko Capital's new Impact Credit Fund (EICF).
Mediterrania Capital Partners, a leading Private Equity firm focused on growth investments for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and mid-cap companies across North and Sub-Saharan Africa, is proud to announce the final close of its fourth fund, Mediterrania Capital IV Mid Cap (MC IV), at €600m.
Oando, Nigeria’s leading indigenous energy solutions company with primary and secondary listings on the Nigerian and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges, has announced the successful upsizing of its Reserve Based Lending (RBL2) facility to $375m.
Africa’s economy is poised to accelerate from a projected 3.3% growth in 2024 to 3.9% in 2025, reaching 4% in 2026, despite growing geopolitical tensions and global trade disruptions, according to the African Development Bank Group's 2025 African Economic Outlook report.
EFG Hermes, an EFG Holding company and the leading investment bank in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has announced that its investment banking division has successfully closed the issuance of a senior unsecured short-term note for the Hermes Securities Brokerage Company (HSB), a wholly owned subsidiary of EFG Holding, in an EGP 900m transaction.
Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (Nedbank CIB), an African banking partner to corporates and institutions across the continent, has extended its sustainable finance offering to Senegal with the closure of a €19.4m sustainability-linked development and term loan for Kasada, an independent real estate private equity platform dedicated to the hospitality sector in Africa.
Incofin Investment Management, a global impact asset manager, has announced the final close of the Water Access Acceleration Fund (W2AF) at approximately €61m in committed capital, exceeding its original target of €50m.
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